With peace gradually returning to violence-hit Mandsaur, local BJP MP Sudhir Gupta alleged that the Congress provoked the farmers to resort to violence and said the farmers' stir was led by the opposition party. The Neemuch-Mandsaur MP alleged that the Congress organised this stir to divert people's attention from the recent public slaughter of a cow by Youth Congress leaders in Kerala. "This is not a farmers' agitation, this is Congress' agitation," he said. Senior Congress leader and former MP Meenakshi Natarajan denied the allegation that the Congress provoked the farmers to resort to violence. It is completely a farmers' agitation but we are there to fight for the farmers' demands," she said.

Source: dna June 11, 2017 09:00 UTC